Human Trafficking

After 10 months of being trafficked by a family friend, Nasima Gain was rescued and returned home, but society shunned her. Today, the West Bengal resident runs many initiatives to help human trafficking victims reclaim their lives.

Assam’s Pallabi Ghosh founded the Impact and Dialogue Foundation to rescue girls from child trafficking. She rehabilitates and empowers them through skill-building and community support too.

Lovingly called didi, Sukla Debnath has empowered over 5,000 Adivasi women by training them to be beauticians, so they become financially independent and don’t fall prey to human trafficking.

Video Volunteers, started by Jessica Mayberry and Stalin K, has been working to free labourers from the clutches of bondage for decades.

On World Fisheries Day, we bring you a story of a part-time fisherwoman who teaches prostitutes the practice of safe sex, while also fulfilling a few dreams of her own.

Subhasree and Nihar Raptan are helping trafficking survivors who have to deal with the social stigma attached to their past after going through physical and psychological trauma of being forced into the sex trade.

Daughters are expected to join their mothers as sex workers and sons become pimps often selling his own mother or sister. Read how Rambhau Ingole is ending this horrifying reality in red light areas of Nagpur.

A lady with a child in her arms, who was suckling on a milk bottle, was begging in the streets of Koregaon Park in the city. When she was asked the child’s name—a rather common question that good samaritans ask before giving alms—she ran away.

"If women have the power to choose, they can nip unsafe migration in the bud and consequently human trafficking," says Hasina Kharbhih, founder of Impulse NGO Network.

Trina Datta had always been sensitive to the world around her and wanted to make a difference in the lives of the downtrodden.